Thursday, March 30th 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Priced at $600
NVIDIA has reportedly set the retail MSRP of its upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 "Ada" graphics card at USD $600. This would put its starting price at anywhere between $170-200 cheaper than the RTX 4070 Ti. We know from reports of different review NDAs for "MSRP" and "non-MSRP" RTX 4070 custom-design graphics cards, that there is an emphasis from NVIDIA's side to ensure that every board partner has cards to sell at MSRP (this $600 price). The rather large price-gap between the RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti should carve out room for premium custom-design RTX 4070 cards without treading too close to the cheapest RTX 4070 Ti.
The GeForce RTX 4070 is reportedly based on the same AD104 silicon as the RTX 4070 Ti, albeit heavily cut down, with just 46 out of 60 streaming multiprocessors being enabled, which work out to just 5,888 CUDA cores, compared to the 7,680 present on the silicon. Other specs include 46 RT cores, 184 Tensor cores, 184 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. The memory sub-system is unchanged from the Ti, you reportedly get 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface, with 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth on tap. NVIDIA is planning to launch the RTX 4070 in mid-April.
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The GeForce RTX 4070 is reportedly based on the same AD104 silicon as the RTX 4070 Ti, albeit heavily cut down, with just 46 out of 60 streaming multiprocessors being enabled, which work out to just 5,888 CUDA cores, compared to the 7,680 present on the silicon. Other specs include 46 RT cores, 184 Tensor cores, 184 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. The memory sub-system is unchanged from the Ti, you reportedly get 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface, with 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth on tap. NVIDIA is planning to launch the RTX 4070 in mid-April.
101 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Priced at $600
Intel might, though - at least for Microsoft Xbox!
Intel MS alliance, idk! But one thing i think helps Intel there, there is no driver issue, like with the PC's. MS takes care of that.
It all comes down to unlimited greed. Note that consumers are much the same, except they're on the receiving end with far fewer options to make changes.
In the end this is about how much Nvidia cares about its primary market, mid-to-long term.
2022 fourth-quarter revenue for Data center was $3.62 billion.
2022 fourth-quarter revenue for Gaming was $1.83 billion.
Combine this with all the hype and potential that Nvidia places in AI - which can utilize gaming cards, just as cryptomining did, and you can rest assured that gaming, although they are by far the main producer in the world, is all of a sudden in a third, not a second place. Just as it was during crypto high. And AI hasn't even started properly yet.
With all the excitement I'm predicting Nvidia will rename it's Gaming sector, and gaming cards, so it will better reflect that it can be used for home and small business AI acceleration. And prices will respond accordingly, Nvidia predicts tens of thousands of cards needed for AI.
2. None. 4060ti is expected to reach 3070/ti performance level. If you don't care about nvidia's features or higher power usage just get the rx6800. Or wait month or two when things will be clearer
I'm not in a rush, 520€ is a bit out of my budget and I need time to convince myself to spend more than planned. Also I find the lack of news regarding 7600/7700 lineup a bit disturbing.
Then they announced Ampere with suprisingly good prices, RTX 3080 for $699! But then crypto happened again before almost anyone could buy a card...
So as we can learn from the past, Nvidia can be stubborn and remain in a position where the sales are low for years. And gaming is less and less important for them. It used to be much more than 50%, now it's less than 30%, and with coming AI requirements...
Luckily for me, I don't really game anymore. But I still have stuff enqueued.
I also had great nvidia cards - believe it or not the TNT2 M64 was a great GPU. Cheap as chips and performed very very well for its price. The FX 5700XT is another nvidia card I fondly remember - again it was cheap and allowed me to play anything I wanted to without breaking the bank. A card that a high-school student could afford to buy with part-time job money. Then there was the 6600GT, the 7950GT, the amazing 8800GTX, the GTX 970, hell even my GTX 1080 was great despite being the generation that began these price hikes.... I still have it in my garage PC. The only nvidia card I was unhappy with was my GTX 480. Back then I was in full "must have top of the line hardware" mode and bought two of those. They died within 2 months of each other, and I sold the replacements I got from RMA. Now I'm unhappy with nvidia's pricing and the fact that they bank on RT witch I find to be nothing more than a gimmick.Not enough influence unfortunately... the 4070 is a 500$ GPU. Tops. For now, there are still people willing to spend this kind on money (1000+ usd) on a video card, but I'm not sure how long this will last considering global inflation and everything else going on in the world. All the people I know, my age, either gave up the hobby entirely or are sticking with older hardware and playing games 5-10 years after release.
While I have been in the green camp for a long while (dating back to Linux support issues), I had no problems recommending ATI/AMD cards to friends when they made sense.
I never cared (and still don't) about bragging rights, or who has the fastest cards - manufacturer X or Y - I always found this kind of argument childish - especially since none of my friends could afford the top-of-the-line models from any company. It's an argument akin to "my dad can bet up your dad". What I cared about is playing games, and hardware I could afford.I'm going to stick to second hand hardware when that happens.